Watford head coach Marco Silva is confident his side can make Vicarage Road a fortress in the second half of the season.

The Hornets have only tasted victory three times at home in the league this season, beating Arsenal, West Ham United and Leicester City, which is a stark contrast to Silva's record at previous clubs, when he went more than 40 games without losing a home league game.

Silva, though, says he knows why they have not been at their best in WD18 and is hopeful that a favourable fixture list will help their points total rise in the coming months - five of the top six have already played at Vicarage Road.

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"I have some reasons and know why," he explained. "During the first round we played five of the top six at home too.

"I hope that can be one of the reasons. Even against some of these clubs we achieved good results. We can, and must, do better.

"This is my opinion and I hope we can start to do better this season.

"What we’ve done in our last home matches, forgetting the last five minutes against Swansea but I know they are very important, we won against Leicester City, and we took the FA Cup very seriously, we won the game."